Don't forget the "U" in "UX" 👩‍🚀 #81

In a bid to improve our design process, I’ve been evaluating each part and this week, I’ve been looking at UX audits - sometimes the first engagement we have with our partners.

Up until recently, we’ve been doing these in Sketch and each one was pretty bespoke, but it took time and they started to mount up (as our UX audits are proving quite popular!).

Sometimes we get too involved in the design process that we don’t take a step back and understand what we’re trying to achieve. In our case, perfecting something that really only needed 60 minutes of effort.

Discipline is one thing excited designers can often struggle with. François Chartrand, Product Designer at Headspace talks about designing with intent and how sometimes, the biggest hurdle in any creative process is beginning.

Claudio Vallejo recently moved from Mexico to New York to join Managed by Q as a product designer.

I believed my mission as a designer was to make things ‘beautiful’ (where I defined what ‘beautiful’ was). This approach worked well for graphic design and animation projects, but as I started working on my first web projects, I began to experience it’s limitations

I’ve been working 3 days on-site at clients and 1.5 days in the studio. I know that the only policy to get the team working well together is to work remote-first. That requires, most of all - discipline!